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n. the activity at a bullfight. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One accustomed to bushfighting. Parkman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Fighting in the bush, or from behind bushes, trees, or thickets. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Camp, n., 6. ] (O. Eng. Law.) A duel; the decision of a case by a duel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. (Naut.) Barriers with loopholes, formerly erected on the deck of a vessel to shelter the men in a close engagement with an enemy's boarders; -- called also close quarters. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

(Bot.) A plant of Central and Southern America, of the Cactus family, extensively cultivated for the sake of the cochineal insect, which lives on it. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A match or contest of gamecocks. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Addicted to cockfighting. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act or practice of pitting gamecocks to fight. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ L. configuratus, p. p. of configurare to form or after; con- + figurare to form, figura form. See Figure. ] To take form or position, as the parts of a complex structure; to agree with a pattern. [ 1913 Webster ]

Known by the name of uniformity;
Where pyramids to pyramids relate
And the whole fabric doth configurate. Jordan. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. configuratio. ] 1. Form, as depending on the relative disposition of the parts of a thing; shape; figure. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is the variety of configurations [ of the mouth ] . . . which gives birth and origin to the several vowels. Harris. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Astrol.) Relative position or aspect of the planets; the face of the horoscope, according to the relative positions of the planets at any time. [ 1913 Webster ]

They [ astrologers ] undertook . . . to determine the course of a man's character and life from the configuration of the stars at the moment of his birth. Whewell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Psychol.) an approach to psychology that emphasizes the importance of configurational properties.
Syn. -- Gestalt psychology. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Configured p. pr. & vb. n. Configuring. ] [ L. configurare: cf. F. configurer. See Configurate. ] To arrange or dispose in a certain form, figure, or shape. Bentley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Disfiguration; mutilation. [ Obs. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. de- (intens.) + figure. ] To delineate. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

These two stones as they are here defigured. Weever. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Disfigure, and cf. Defiguration. ] The act of disfiguring, or the state of being disfigured; defacement; deformity; disfigurement. Gauden. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Disfigured p. pr. & vb. n. Disfiguring. ] [ OF. desfigurer, F. défigurer; pref. des- (L. dis-) + figurer to fashion, shape, fr. L. figurare, fr. figura figure. See Figure, and cf. Defiguration. ] To mar the figure of; to render less complete, perfect, or beautiful in appearance; to deface; to deform. [ 1913 Webster ]

Disfiguring not God's likeness, but their own. Milton.

Syn. -- To deface; deform; mar; injure. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Disfigurement; deformity. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. having the appearance spoiled; as, a disfigured face; strip mining left a disfigured landscape. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. Act of disfiguring, or state of being disfigured; deformity. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which disfigures; a defacement; a blot. [ 1913 Webster ]

Uncommon expressions . . . are a disfigurement rather than any embellishment of discourse. Hume. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who disfigures. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Relating to an effigy. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. effigiatus, p. p. of effigiare to form, fr. effigies. See Effigy. ] To form as an effigy; hence, to fashion; to adapt. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ He must ] effigiate and conform himself to those circumstances. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. LL. effigiatio. ] The act of forming in resemblance; an effigy. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L. ] See Effigy. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Effigies [ L. effigies, fr. effingere to form, fashion; ex + fingere to form, shape, devise. See Feign. ] The image, likeness, or representation of a person, whether a full figure, or a part; an imitative figure; -- commonly applied to sculptured likenesses, as those on monuments, or to those of the heads of princes on coins and medals, sometimes applied to portraits. [ 1913 Webster ]

To burn in effigy, or
To hang in effigy, to burn or to hang an image or picture of a person, as a token of public odium. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ or } [ Turk. eleme anything which has been sifted and freed from dust or broken parts. ] A kind of figs of superior quality. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ F. figue the fruit of the tree, Pr. figa, fr. L. ficus fig tree, fig. Cf. Fico. ] 1. (Bot.) A small fruit tree (Ficus Carica) with large leaves, known from the remotest antiquity. It was probably native from Syria westward to the Canary Islands. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The fruit of a fig tree, which is of round or oblong shape, and of various colors. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The fruit of a fig tree is really the hollow end of a stem, and bears numerous achenia inside the cavity. Many species have little, hard, inedible figs, and in only a few does the fruit become soft and pulpy. The fruit of the cultivated varieties is much prized in its fresh state, and also when dried or preserved. See Caprification. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A small piece of tobacco. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The value of a fig, practically nothing; a fico; -- used in scorn or contempt. “A fig for Peter.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cochineal fig. See Conchineal fig. --
Fig dust, a preparation of fine oatmeal for feeding caged birds. --
Fig faun, one of a class of rural deities or monsters supposed to live on figs. “Therefore shall dragons dwell there with the fig fauns.” Jer. i. 39. (Douay version). --
Fig gnat (Zool.), a small fly said to be injurious to figs. --
Fig leaf, the leaf tree; hence, in allusion to the first clothing of Adam and Eve (Genesis iii.7), a covering for a thing that ought to be concealed; esp., an inadequate covering; a symbol for affected modesty. --
Fig marigold (Bot.), the name of several plants of the genus Mesembryanthemum, some of which are prized for the brilliancy and beauty of their flowers. --
Fig tree (Bot.), any tree of the genus Ficus, but especially F. Carica which produces the fig of commerce. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ See Fico, Fig, n. ] 1. To insult with a fico, or contemptuous motion. See Fico. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

When Pistol lies, do this, and fig me like
The bragging Spaniard. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To put into the head of, as something useless o&unr_; contemptible. [ Obs. ] L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Figure; dress; array. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Were they all in full fig, the females with feathers on their heads, the males with chapeaux bras? Prof. Wilson. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ From the name of the barber in Beaumarchais' “Barber of Seville.” ] An adroit and unscrupulous intriguer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Corrupted fr. vagary. ] A frolic; a vagary; a whim. [ Obs. ] Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) (a) A large beetle (Allorhina nitida) which in the Southern United States destroys figs. The elytra are velvety green with pale borders. (b) A bird. See Figpecker. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Fidgety; restless. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Such a little figent thing. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Etymol. uncertain. ] A juggler's trick; conjuring. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The devil is the author of wicked figgum. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Fought p. pr. & vb. n. Fighting. ] [ OE. fihten, fehten, AS. feohtan; akin to D. vechten, OHG. fehtan, G. fechten, Sw. fäkta, Dan. fegte, and perh. to E. fist; cf. L. pugnare to fight, pugnus fist. ] 1. To strive or contened for victory, with armies or in single combat; to attempt to defeat, subdue, or destroy an enemy, either by blows or weapons; to contend in arms; -- followed by with or against. [ 1913 Webster ]

You do fight against your country's foes. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

To fight with thee no man of arms will deign. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To act in opposition to anything; to struggle against; to contend; to strive; to make resistance. [ 1913 Webster ]

To fight shy, to avoid meeting fairly or at close quarters; to keep out of reach. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To carry on, or wage, as a conflict, or battle; to win or gain by struggle, as one's way; to sustain by fighting, as a cause. [ 1913 Webster ]

He had to fight his way through the world. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

I have fought a good fight. 2 Tim. iv. 7. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To contend with in battle; to war against; as, they fought the enemy in two pitched battles; the sloop fought the frigate for three hours. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To cause to fight; to manage or maneuver in a fight; as, to fight cocks; to fight one's ship. [ 1913 Webster ]

To fight it out, to fight until a decisive and conclusive result is reached. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. fight, feht, AS. feoht. See Fight, v. i. ] 1. A battle; an engagement; a contest in arms; a combat; a violent conflict or struggle for victory, between individuals or between armies, ships, or navies, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Who now defies thee thrice to single fight. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A struggle or contest of any kind. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Strength or disposition for fighting; pugnacity; as, he has a great deal of fight in him. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A screen for the combatants in ships. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Up with your fights, and your nettings prepare. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Running fight, a fight in which the enemy is continually chased; also, one which continues without definite end or result.

Syn. -- Combat; engagement; contest; struggle; encounter; fray; affray; action; conflict. See Battle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. feohtere. ] 1. One who fights; a combatant; a warrior. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A boxer; a pugilist. [ PJC ]

3. A person with the determination and will to persist through great difficulty to achieve a goal; one with the courage to fight and resist an opponent, and to struggle with all one's powers. [ PJC ]

4. (Mil.) A military aircraft designed to seek out and destroy enemy aircraft; it is usually smaller and more maneuvarable than aircraft designed specifically for bombing. However, hybrid fighter-bomber aircraft that perform both functions also are used. [ PJC ]

a. 1. Qualified for war; fit for battle. [ 1913 Webster ]

An host of fighting men. 2 Chron. xxvi. 11. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Occupied in war; being the scene of a battle; as, a fighting field. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

A fighting chance, one dependent upon the issue of a struggle. [ Colloq. ] --
Fighting crab (Zool.), the fiddler crab. --
Fighting fish (Zool.), a remarkably pugnacious East Indian fish (Betta pugnax), reared by the Siamese for spectacular fish fights. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Pugnaciously. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Fight + wite. ] (O.Eng. Law) A mulct or fine imposed on a person for making a fight or quarrel to the disturbance of the peace. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The leaf from a fig tree. [ PJC ]

2. An ornamental design shaped like the leaf of a fig tree, used in architecture; also, a design shaped like a fig leaf to cover genitalia in sculpture or paintings -- in reference to the biblical story in Genesis of Adam and Eve, who covered their privates with fig leaves. [ PJC ]

3. Hence: [ figurative ] Anything used to conceal what is considered embarrassing or indecent. See sense 2. [ PJC ]

n. [ L. figmentum, fr. fingere to form, shape, invent, feign. See Feign. ] An invention; a fiction; something feigned or imagined. [ 1913 Webster ]

Social figments, feints, and formalism. Mrs. Browning. [ 1913 Webster ]

It carried rather an appearance of figment and invention . . . than of truth and reality. Woodward. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The European garden warbler (Sylvia hortensis or Currica, hortensis); -- called also beccafico and greater pettychaps. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A marine univalve shell of the genus Pyrula, or Ficula, resembling a fig in form.

{ , a. [ L. figulatus, p. p. of figulare to shape, fr. figulus potter, fr. fingere to shape. ] Made of potter's clay; molded; shaped. [ R. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. L. figulina pottery, fr. figulus. See Figulate. ] A piece of pottery ornamented with representations of natural objects. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whose figulines and rustic wares
Scarce find him bread from day to day. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]